Accepted two inspections and completed hundreds of major training missions
How did this "shark hunting" powerhouse become?
In just three years, a certain regiment of the Southern Theater Naval Aviation Corps has the actual combat capability of "multi-directional and wide-area use"-when the fishermen in the South China Sea are killed, they will dispatch fighter planes to rescue and guide them, and complete the first review with high standards without any experience to follow. , When foreign warships and planes came to our South China Sea to provoke troubles... the rapid growth of this regiment is surprising.
"An unknown'enemy' situation is found in a certain area of the South China Sea, please take off quickly to verify it." One day in early April, a group of eagles lined up and the blades were flying in a clear blue sky over a certain airport in Hainan.
Following the commander's order, several anti-submarine patrol planes whistled and lifted into the air.
Clearing the mission sea area, searching for targets by radar, establishing sonar buoy listening routes...Fighting the sea and air, a real-combat submarine search and attack drill kicked off.
After working closely with the surface naval forces, they accurately locked and successfully attacked the target, and the "shark hunting" was successful!
These anti-submarine patrol aircraft belong to a certain regiment of the Southern Theater Naval Air Force, the first unit in the entire army equipped with fixed-wing anti-submarine aircraft.
Since its establishment more than three years ago, this regiment has been reviewed by President Xi Jinping twice, successfully completed hundreds of major exercises, explored dozens of technical and tactical achievements, and made many breakthroughs in the field of anti-submarine detection.
On the eve of May 1st, reporters walked into this team to explore the success codes for their rapid growth.
Capable of "multi-directional and wide-area use of troops" in just a few years
How new is this force?
The new arrivals still live in the difficult temporary camp, and the pilots live in a six-person board room; the new arrivals' biggest goal was once to "let the plane fly first."
However, in just three years, they have already possessed the actual combat capability of "multi-directional and wide-area use of troops"-when the fishermen in the South China Sea were killed, they deployed fighter planes to rescue and guide them, and completed the first review with high standards without experience. When I came to the South China Sea to provoke troubles, draw swords and swords... the rapid growth of this group is surprising.
Regarding this point, Zou Jinan, political commissar of the regiment, said that this is due to the extraordinary construction thinking of “training through battle and training by taking the enemy” formulated by the regiment’s party committee, which forced the troops to grow rapidly.
Once, the regiment was ordered to perform a drill mission to monitor targets, and the information available for them to analyze and learn from was insufficient.
Whether the target will come, when it will come, or where it will go, I don't know at all.
The leader of the regiment told reporters that the sea area for the mission is millions of square kilometers, and the search mission over such a vast sea area is like finding a needle in a haystack.
Their equipment has only been in place for a few months, so how difficult it is to carry out such a high degree of actual combat drill mission!
The regiment chief of staff Liu Zhimin is the captain of the mission.
"The aircrew studied all operational details overnight, consulted relevant performance data of the target, and worked out a meticulous combat plan." He recalled that everyone had exhausted all their wisdom, and the final search plan was seven sets.
In the early morning of the next morning, the fighter plane took to the sky to meet the first morning glow.
After entering the mission sea area, the fighter planes hovered at low altitude, fighting wits and courage with the opponent above the water, and successfully captured the opponent by using predetermined tactics.
In order to accumulate more data, they have implemented long-term tracking and monitoring of the drill targets.
When returning and landing, the remaining fuel of the fighter has reached a minimum.
Because of this mission, the superior gave the unit a second-class merit.
The regiment summarized the innovative tactical tactics used in this mission, and the results obtained won the second prize in a certain rank evaluation of the whole army.
"In our regiment, the formation of combat capability is no longer the result, but a process of dynamic change. The only measure is whether we can defeat the opponent in a contest with the opponent. Almost every day, opponents come to the door. This is our improvement. The best'whetstone' for combat capability." Liu Zhimin said with emotion.
Refined into "seed" troops in flight missions
100 meters, 80 meters, 50 meters...The altitude of the aircraft continues to drop; 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 60 minutes...The flight time continues, from morning to night.
For the pilots in the cockpit, only by lowering the altitude as much as possible and continuously extending the time in the air, can the mission crews carefully analyze the spectral lines, switch the buoys one by one to listen, and the noise will be smaller, so as to take the lead Winning fighters, but it also means that you need to practice your skills to the extreme and maximize the effectiveness of your equipment.
On the sea, there is endless darkness.
Flying training close to the sea is prone to illusions due to the curvature of the earth.
The wings of a large aircraft are dozens of meters long, and even turns are dangerous.
"It looks like flying against the bottom of a black pot, which requires extremely high flying posture." Talking about ultra-low altitude training, head Liu Zhihua said.
This team has new equipment, new missions, and new personnel. Nearly half of the pilots are born in the 90s.
In this regiment, the average flight time of pilots is twice that of the annual flight training plan. Most of the instructors have just obtained the qualifications for combat training, and the boundary performance of weapons is gradually trying to break through.
But they dare to reform and innovate, dare to let go, and let young backbones temper themselves in the task.
The post-90s Zhu Shangming was reviewed by President Xi Jinping three times within two years, and he performed nearly 30 combat readiness tasks such as patrol, surveillance, verification, and expulsion. He quickly grew into a backbone and was appointed as a deputy flight captain.
He could never forget the anti-submarine mission. As soon as he flew into the scheduled airspace, the fighter aircraft issued a warning sound of "Didi" and the autopilot was suddenly damaged.
In the next few hours, Zhu Shangming manually manipulated the fighter plane and cooperated with the mission cabin personnel to release all the buoys into the designated sea area with high quality. The plane remained stable and the superb driving skills were unanimously recognized by everyone.
Knowing yourself and the enemy can survive all battles.
They also regularly carry out joint training and joint exercises with ships, submarines, radars and other units. Through full-staff, full-equipped, full-element, and full-process confrontation exercises, they have improved the combat capabilities and psychological quality of aviation anti-submarine personnel under actual combat conditions.
Zhao Guangchen, who has just become a captain, said with emotion: “Like cats and mice, after understanding the habitual movements of mice, cats will know when and what methods to take to catch mice. Both actual combat training and talent training need to be touched. Clear the opponent's routines and details."
The reporter learned that the number of combat crews they can now triple has not only been enough for their own use, but they are also continuously sending backbone forces to their brothers, becoming a veritable "seed" force.
It is the voice of the officers and soldiers to never let down the party's trust
The most memorable thing for Liu Zhihua is the precious experience of being read twice.
One was the review of President Xi Jinping during the maritime military parade in 2018, and the other was the review of President Xi Jinping during the 70th anniversary of the National Day military parade in 2019.
"Reading once, glorious for a lifetime!" Many details of the reading are still vivid, Liu Zhihua said, "I must fulfill my duty and mission, and I must not let down the party's trust."
We must not let down the party's trust and express the aspirations of every officer and soldier of this powerful sea and sky brigade.
During the refitting period, the maintenance team leader Chen Pengxia led the backbone to follow the factory technical team to learn experience and troubleshoot during the day. On weekends, he took new trainees to read textbooks and analyze schematic diagrams. On average, they worked more than 15 hours a day. They all live next to the aircraft; the officers and soldiers have created 12 innovations and put them into application. At the same time, they have provided the factory with more than 60 technical bulletins, of which more than 50 have been adopted and improved.
At more than 2 am the day before a certain exercise mission, the flight captain Yu Yang was ordered to urgently perform a major exercise to verify the weather.
When crossing the hail and thunderstorm area, he avoided danger dozens of times with his excellent technique.
It was precisely relying on the first-hand precise information provided by it that the exercise mission the next day was successfully completed.
In the actual combat mine training, several deep bombs all hit the target accurately; in the 24-hour air patrol for multiple days, several fighter planes took off in relay, and the officers and soldiers withstood the fatigue test of dusk, midnight, and dawn... …
"Shark hunting" is the group's consistent name for anti-submarine.
Their task is to hunt the "black sharks" hidden under the sea.
For this goal, they are flying between the sea and the sky!